Illuminating attachment for kerosene-burners.



E. MAUHER. ILLUMINATING ATTACHMENT FOR KEROSENE BURNERS. APPLICATION FlLED SEPT- f8. 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1c, 1916.

Application filetlSptl'nbei' 18, 1915; Serial No. 51,405.

To all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that I, ERWIN MAURER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jamaic'a, LongIsland, in-the county of Queens and State of New York,-h'ave invented certainii'e'w and useful Improvements in Illuminating Attachments for Kerosene-Burners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to vapor or gas burners, and has for its object to provide improved means for converting the burner of a cooking stove into an illuminating burner.

The invention contemplates the connection of an illuminating mantle supporting attachment to a known type of cooking stove burner by an improved coupling or connector which may be substituted for the detachable spreader of the burner and is adapted to conduct or carry the gas or vapor mixed in the burner to the mantle supporting attachment. This coupling or connector is especially designed for use on the type of burner with which the Radius wickless kerosene stove is equipped, but may also be successfully employed on other forms of burners in which fuel is mixed with air toform the proper vapor for burning.

It is also the aim of this invention to provide an improved mantle supporting attachment to be used with the coupling or con-- nector just mentioned, said attachment carrying a plurality of .mantles, the number of which may be varied to suit requirements.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more particularly defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a broken elevation of a burner of the type above mentioned with one of the improved couplings mounted thereon and supporting an attachment having three mantles, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the attachment provided with extensions for supporting additional mantles.

As the particular kind of burner does not constitute any part of the present invention, a general View of the preferred burner, namely that used on the Radius stove, is considered sufficient by way of illustration. In

Fig. 1, this burner is indicated at 1, the gas or vapor delivery pipe being designated 2.

The improved coupling device consists of a centrally arranged tube 4 having at its bottom end an enlarged portion or skirt 5 provided with perforations 6. The lower edge of the skirt 5 is screw-threaded to engage a similarly screw threaded flange 3 on the burner for supporting the coupling in proper position with its tube 4 arranged in vertical alinement with the tube 2 of the burner, the lower end of said tube 4:, where it joins onto the skirt 5, being spaced slightly above the upper end of the pipe 2 so as to admit additional air which enters through the perforations 6 in the skirt 5 to the tube 1.

The upper end of the tube 4: may be finished in any desired manner for connection with a mantle supporting attachment. As illustrated, the upper end of the tube 4 is fitted with a valve 7 controlled by a swinging beam 8 with cords or chains 9 attached to its opposite ends. From the valve 7 a section of pipe 10 leads to a distributing reservoir 11. Any desired number of branch pipes may be attached to the reservoir 11 for supporting a plurality of incandescent mantles. In Fig. 1 two oppositely extending horizontal branch pipes 12 are shown supporting inverted mantles 13, while a single vertical branch pipe 14 supports an upright mantle 15. The reservoir 11 may be provided with additional openings for the connection of other branch pipes, said openings being closed by plugs, as at 11 in Fig. 1, when they are not in use. While I have shown a single valve 7 controlling the flow of gas or vapor to all of the mantles, it is obvious that similar valves may be placed in each of the branch pipes for individually controlling the flow of gas or vapor to each mantle.

In Fig. 2, I have illustrated in plan how additional mantles may be carried by a reservoir 11, but it will be understood that this is only one way of accomplishing this purpose and it is simply given by way of example. In this instance, a vertical or upright mantle 15 and its branch pipe 14 are omitted and a branch pipe 16 is attached to one side of the reservoir 11. This branch pipe 16 connects with a secondary reservoir 17 from which branch pipes 18 extend for supporting inverted mantles 19. Other branch pipes 20 and 21 may lead from the reservoirs 17 and 11, respectively, for supplying still further mantles, so that a bank or tier consisting of any desired number of mantles may be provided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. The combinationwith a cooking burner having a gas supply pipe and a screwthreaded flange, of a coupling of'the character described comprising a tube extending upward from the burner for attachment with a mantle holder, and an enlarged perforated skirt on the lower end of the tube for surrounding the gas supply pipe of the burner, said skirt being screw-threaded to rigidly engage the screw-threaded flange on the burner for supporting the coupling.

2. The combination with a cooking burner having a gas supply pipe and an upstanding flange, of a coupling of the character described comprising a tube extending upward from the burner for attachment with a mantle holder, and an enlarged skirt on the lower end of the-tube for surrounding the gas supply pipe of the burner and rigidly connecting with the upstanding flange on the burner to support the coupling. v

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ERWIN MAURER.

Copies of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents welhlnrton, D. C." 

